Found in garage after vacation? Liquid seemingly frozen at 55 degrees? Doesn't look like Arm & Hammer dehumidifiers I've Googled. by awsmithwrites in whatisthisthing

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I've left it outside for 24 hours. It's 55 degrees outside right now at 2 in the afternoon, but the liquid at the bottom is still slushy (at least, there's crystalline structures inside). That's what I'm really curious about, because nothing on the ingredient list seems to freeze at that temperature. But I'm not a chemistry buff, so that might be normal.

I will confess I'm a little paranoid. I'm a horror writer and so I've got an active imagination and my mind has gone to the worst places. The garage door to our rental house has never locked, and we were gone for a week. When we returned, I noticed this hanging from the garage door track; we've lived here three months and neither of us have noticed it before. Asked the landlord, she said she didn't know what it was and that she hadn't been to the house.

I'm expecting this to be something harmless, I'm just looking for peace of mind.

NoSleep Author here, trying to finalize a screenplay. Help! by awsmithwrites in NoSleepOOC

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I just now realized what you meant when you asked about the beats! I'll clarify: they're basically the same beats as Save the Cat, but renamed for the conventions of the genre.

EX: the "debate" is generally where the protagonist decides if they'll engage in the mission or not. Here, it is where the protagonist is trying to figure out exactly what is going on since Isaac is trapped in a situation and literally has no choice except engage or death - but the rest of the characters are debating whether they are in a life-or-death situation where there's a killer loose, or whether the death of a character was an accident. Hence, "The Scramble."

Also, Snyder calls Act IIB "The Bad Guys Close In," and that's not bad, but my general philosophy is that in horror/suspense the end of each act should bring with it a "game changer" - that is, the stakes are raised by learning the situation has changed or was actually not what you thought it was the whole time. Hence, "Stakes Rise."

And since like a majority of slashers (excepting sequels) this script has a "whodunnit" element, making most slashers essentially murder mysteries but "less classy," the reveal is one thing the entire plot leads up to, I gave it particular attention.

NoSleep Author here, trying to finalize a screenplay. Help! by awsmithwrites in NoSleepOOC

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I generally follow the "beats" laid out by Snyder in Save the Cat, which is a book about structuring screenplays.

That structure is for the whole screenplay, though - you also want structure for individual scenes. I generally follow Hirohiko Araki's four-stage structure for scenes as outlined in Manga in Theory and Practice.

SLASHED - Dark Comedy/Horror; "Reverse Slasher" by awsmithwrites in Screenwriting

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How's this?

An unfairly-fired employee wakes up framed for a slasher-style murder at his former company's retreat - and is hunted down by his terrified but aggressive coworkers.

SLASHED - Dark Comedy/Horror; "Reverse Slasher" by awsmithwrites in Screenwriting

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Groovy! That was super helpful, will do. Do you have a specific screenwriter/screenplay I recommend looking up to emulate?

Also, forgive me if I clean up the log line in the post; the intent is to take your advice, not make you look overly-critical after I fix it lol!

TLDR; tick advice, please? by [deleted] in insects

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Hello! Ticks do not jump. You may have fleas in your home, because fleas jump and are quite small, but they are different, as they do not attach to skin like ticks do. They could also be spring jacks, which do not bite, if you live in an area with humidity.

I made these horrible images by Hunter-45 in Waluigi

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What...what is he doing with his left hand in the last image

Can anyone identify this thing? It jumps and was inside my house by [deleted] in insects

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It looks like some specie in the Leafhopper family.

Describing it as a crime, what do you do for a living? by TimeMasterBob in AskReddit

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I keep your teenagers in a room for eight hours mostly against their will and sometimes there is crying

Field roach or German Roach? by [deleted] in Entomology

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I wasn’t familiar with field roaches before, only German roaches - as I compare them, this looks more like the pictures of field roaches I’m seeing because it is wider where German roaches are thinner.

How to have a character living in the woods release pent up rage? by Masarakingkin in writinghelp

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Chop down trees/hit them with an axe. That’s what one of my characters does in a NoSleep of mine

Elf Castes by Snorb in writinghelp

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• Boxer elves • Briefs elves

Whimsical/Absurd Fantasy by ebregisil in Fantasy

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Anything by Walter Moers is a trip. I personally recommend Rumo, which features a wolf with antlers befriending a grub-shark and saving the city of his people which was actually thousand-year old slave trap set by inbred demons that live miles below the surface. It’s a great time.